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“When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.”

Writing Spiritual Religious Animal Intellectual Rivers Sensual

Author:Laura Nyro

“Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”

Body Spiritual Differences Seasons Riches Sensual Unfeeling

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.”

Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.”

Thinking Writing Spiritual Break Our Lives Seeing Mystery Ordinary Understood Gains Concerned Sensual Intimacy Borders Divided Buoys

Author:Kevin Hart

“The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.”

Knows Men Two Spiritual Lying Eternal Opposites Flesh Sensuality Sensual Confused Ecstasy Lions Lambs Never Lie Unanimity

Book:Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

Source: Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

“If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.”

Ifs Want Writing Spiritual Views Novel Psychology Point Of View Lust Sensual Analysis Torture Shy Disgusting Shocking Petty Unnatural Inconsistent Impotence Infamy

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.”

Men Firsts Mean Spiritual Divine Capable Intellectual Perfection Sensual Ornaments Supplements

Author:Richard Hooker